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Tullie House Museum : 1935.80.11
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Painting, watercolour, The Abbey Gate, Carlisle, Cumberland, by Robert Carlyle snr, 1791.
Summertime; two figures stand conversing in the roadway outside Abbey Gate.
One of a set of 11 original drawings for proposed aquatints The Antiquities of the City of Carlisle, 1791.
The work was adapted by Matthew Ellis Nutter, being executed as one of a series of 17 works by Carlyle and published by Thurnam as Carlisle in the Olden Time, 1835. See CALMG:1978.108.74.1
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The ABBEY GATE, CARLISLE.
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